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yes. They are in sorted order. i want output like this
line1:11111
line3:33333
line5:55555
line7:77777
line9:99999

I am trying the following code but it is partly correct
awk...

Hi. How can I read row number from one file and print that corresponding record present at that row in another file.
eg

file1
1
3
5
7
9

file2
11111
22222
33333
44444
55555
66666...

i have many pairs of file1 and file2 each containing different values.. i want a solution so that based on values in file1 i get corresponding rows in file2

but this limits to this fine only.. i want to read from a file and then do operations in another file

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Hi.
How can we print those rows of file2 which are mentioned in file1. first character of file1 is a row number.. for eg

file1
1:abc
3:ghi
6:pqr
...

Thanks yoda.. Jist a query.. Will array size keep on growing for all files or wil it start from beginning when second file is searched??

hi.. I want to compare records present in 1 file with those in 3 other files and print those records of file 1 which are not present in any of the files. for eg -

file1 file2 file3 ...

Code is edited in the original post

Yes drl.. Double quote mismatch was there.. Please let me know if you can convert this to perl

Thanks Jim.. But I want to avoid using sort as that would reorganise my file and hence display of records which I want to avoid.. Is there not any other solution except using gawk as I don't have...

Hi.. i am running nawk scripts on solaris system to get records of file1 not in file2 and find duplicate records in a while with the following scripts -compare
nawk 'NR==FNR{a[$0]++;next;} !a[$0]...

hi.. i am using solaris system and ksh and using nawk to get records of file1 not in file2(not line by line comparison). code i am using is nawk 'NR==FNR{a[$0]++} !a[$0] {print"line:" FNR"->" $0} '...